Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palos Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Palos Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Palos Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Palos Heights itself.
The rest sit in Worth Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 1, 2026 Palos Heights — City Council Sep 1, 2026
- Sep 1, 2026 On the agenda: Palos Heights meeting — ALPR (Sep 1)
- Aug 25, 2026 Palos Heights — meeting Aug 25, 2026
- Aug 25, 2026 On the agenda: Palos Heights meeting — facial recognition (Aug 25)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Palos Heights
The readers mapped around Palos Heights break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Harlem Avenue — 3 readers
- West 127th Street — 1 reader
- West College Drive — 1 reader
Palos Heights IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Palos Heights IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 73 other agencies.
Palos Heights in the Cook County picture
Cook County has 1,915 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 5,185,812 residents and 9,668 road miles. By road density that is 0.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Palos Heights
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Palos Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palos Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Palos Heights
- On the agenda: Palos Heights meeting — ALPR (Sep 1)
- On the agenda: Palos Heights meeting — facial recognition (Aug 25)
- On the agenda: Palos Heights meeting — ALPR (May 5)
What you can do in Palos Heights
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
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Cameras near Palos Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).